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Thursday, Aug. 20 – Transcript of radio interview of President Obama with Michael Smerconish – Vice President Biden announces availability of nearly $1.2 billion in grants to help hospitals and doctors use electronic health records
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One side is protesting the very idea of health reform. The other is trying to push for more than it seems we’re likely to get. Jeanne Spath is trying to sort through the back-and-forth so she can be among the first out of the chute selling health insurance post-reform.
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Dear EarthTalk: I’d like to know the relative electricity cost of utility scale solar and wind plants versus rooftop residential solar. In other words, how can I know whether to subsidize my utility’s alternative energy plant or renovate my own home? – Randy Wilson, Flagstaff, Ariz. Making such a determination is complex, but you could…
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Sorry, Mr. President, I don’t wish to die. I know that my death and those of other seniors will help you reform our nation’s health-care system without increasing its cost. But can’t you find a better way? I don’t live in Europe, so I prefer that society doesn’t toss me aside just because it thinks…
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Gov. Timothy M. Kaine announced today that eight organizations received a total of $2.8 million in grant funding to expand and improve community-based programs and services that address the needs of people with traumatic brain and spinal cord injuries and their families.
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Among major benefits of study in a smaller college setting are opportunities for hands-on, extensive research projects with professors. That was the experience this summer for several Eastern Mennonite University students who worked closely with professors in research on campus and overseas.
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Wednesday, Aug. 12 – Remarks by President Obama at Medal of Freedom ceremony – Remarks by president and Justice Sonia Sotomayor at White House ceremony – Press briefing by Press Secretary Robert Gibbs
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It will be his fourth visit to the Republic of Lithuania, only this time Jerry Holsopple will go to the Baltic state in Northern Europe as a Fulbright Scholar. Dr. Holsopple, professor of visual and communication arts at Eastern Mennonite University, will spend the 2009-2010 academic year as a Fulbright teacher at LCC International University…
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Column by Chris Graham So I’m hearing though the grapevine that the head of a city-government department in Waynesboro is thinking about running for City Council next year, and that he’s not necessarily thinking about quitting his day job before doing it. “Can’t be,” I remember saying when I first was made aware of this…
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Story by Chris Graham They’re about as big as a 6-foot tall male, a tad bit thicker – up to 600 pounds – and when stressed, you don’t want to find yourself sitting on top of a wildebeest. Which is precisely where second-year Virginia Tech graduate veterinary student Becky Davis found herself one day in…
